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Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was born on may eighth seventeen fifty three in Gambia, West Africa now Senegal, West Africa. She is the first african american and one of the first females to publish a book for a poem at an adolescent ave of twenty in seventeen seventy three. At the age of eight years old Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts in 1761 on an indubitably cramped slave ship named "Phillis" which follows how Phillis Wheatley got her name.
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